Norwich (a) post-match thread

jimharri said:
Do we not work on defending set pieces/crosses? Everyone (and his dog) knows it's our Achilles heel. Yet it keeps happening. Why? The second and third goals were down to individual fuck ups (Walker and Otamendi), but surely we should be working as a group on defending balls into the box.
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personally i like the old school guys on the post for corners, it stops the little fluky deflections from creeping in and also is good against flash headers. their all important first goal probably would have been saved.
plus reading the play you can come out if you need to but you can never go back as fast as you need to if it gets behind you.
 
Fucking rubbish!

Why, when they know how Norwich were playing, didn’t they adapt their game and pass quicker, rather than dawdling on the ball?

The Canaries' third goal stemmed from a very similar situation to Newcastle's second in the defeat at St. James's Park last season; this time it was Otamendi, rather than Fernandinho, but the outcome was the same.

However, you have to credit Norwich for devising a game plan and sticking to it. They fully deserved their victory.
 
Apalling performance, very worrying considering Laporte is out until the new year. Defence was all over the place and we will regret not buying a cb in the window. Otamendi is a complete liability and we can forget the title on that performance. Very few positives
 
abu13 said:
This exactly, as we know our transfers are planned are plotted at least 18 months in advance and this close season it was all about getting in Rodri, we wouldn't throw away all our detailed work on Rodri to sign a centre half due to Vinny going. As you say i don't think we expected Vinny to go until next season.

Can you imagine the uproar on here if we had let the Rodri deal slip through the net to sign Maguire, especially if Laporte hadn't got injured.
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It's like we didnt pay 60mil for a right back, who 18 months ago was at Inter on loan before moving to Juve for almost half what we paid. Solid planning that
 
When was the last time we lost a league game? Maybe Newcastle? Seriously though, we lose one game and pep is a shit, get a fucking grip you bunch of utter pricks. If that’s what u think go and fucking dip a few bins.
 
Those crying out for a central defender. Who would you have bought? Harry effing Maguire? For 80 million? I don't think so
No, De Ligt was the man, and De Ligt wasn't available. Simple as. The days when we spunked money on mediocrity are over.

I thought everyone was poor today. Everyone (with a special mention for Zin who persistently made poor choices, and slowed our momentum down).
Fair play to Norwich. That's how you beat us, if you're going to. Not many will.
The season is young, the road is long. The Tottenham game still rankles more than this, to me anyway.
Great rhat we're back to two-game weeks. Chance to get this out of our system, fast.
 
Franknorgrovesnephew said:
Haha what player deserved any praise whatsoever today and coarse they will be hurting I never said they wouldn't did I.
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No, you said they should pay the fans for travelling down. Not sure why on earth they should pay the fans for anything. The fans pay for a game of football and thats exactly what they got.
 
Bill said:
Pep the rotator gets spanked.....again.
Will he ever learn.
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Maybe, maybe not. Seems like arrogance today to bench KDB. Really bad decision. It's happened a few times before but 198 points over two seasons means he has lots of credits to spare. By the way, I don't expect Liverpool to drop many points. We are chasing already.
 
Plenty of agro tonight. Let it all out, we wont get many games like this hopefully, so make the most of it.

 
You have to hope that is our worst performance of the season out of the way early on as if there are too many more of them then we won't be retaining the title.

Too many things seemed wrong today...the line up, the lethargy, the fact that no-one had a good game and quite a few put in abysmal performances and the unbelievable fact that the same 11 players came out for the second half. The players and Pep have a lot to reflect on.
 
Defence rightly blamed for carelessness but what about those who decided to shoot and simply failed to even hit the target?
 
brummie blue said:
while we have a nervous defence, let's have Ferni and Rodri side by side protecting, 4231
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They are different sort of players but it could work well. Dinho used to charge in to the box and he probably breaks up play slightly better.
 
Ric said:
Shocking display from City, got exactly what we deserved. Far too many players simply didn't perform. Fair play to Norwich though, they were the better side and deserved winners.
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Come on mate, they weren't the better side but they deserved to win because their squad is far inferior to ours and they had about six injuries to their first team players.
 
Last season we got our kick up the arse over Xmas, it's come early this season which might turn out to be a good thing
 
What a fucking bunch of moaners and complainers some of you have turned into... your sense of entitlement makes you sound just like Scouse Scum and Man Ure Scum fans.

Can't you realise we can't win all the time?

Fuck off with your ill thought out bollocks based mostly on ignorance of real life...

Norwich played out of their skins and their fans, players and club personnel deserve their victory.

Well done NCFC

JJ
 
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